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Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill (21 January 1924 – 18 April 1992) [1] was an English comedian, actor, and scriptwriter. He is remembered for his television programme, The Benny Hill Show, an amalgam of slapstick, burlesque and double entendre in a format that included live comedy and filmed segments, with Hill at the focus of almost every segment.
The Benny Hill Show is a British comedy television show starring Benny Hill that aired on the BBC and ITV between 15 January 1955 and 1 May 1989. The show consisted mainly of sketches typified by slapstick , mime , parody , and double entendre .
The Italian Job is a 1969 British comedy caper film written by Troy Kennedy Martin, produced by Michael Deeley, directed by Peter Collinson, and starring Michael Caine.The film's plot centres on Cockney criminal Charlie Croker, recently released from prison, who forms a gang for the job of stealing a cache of gold bullion being transported through the city of Turin, Italy, in an armoured ...
The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 2/5 stars, writing: "Considering he was then one of Britain's most important directors, Basil Dearden might have seemed a peculiar choice for TV comic Benny Hill's sole starring venture. But Dearden adeptly judges the slapstick content of this amiable caper, in which Hill's hapless gumshoe bungles ...
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 children's musical fantasy film directed by Ken Hughes and produced by Albert R. Broccoli.It stars Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Fröbe, Anna Quayle, Benny Hill, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann, Heather Ripley and Adrian Hall.
Benny Hill and Sydney Tafler emerge as sympathetic characters, but the cameraderie which the film purports to show is too often lost in patronising officer-and-men relationships, sketchy characterisation and sheer, crude mawkishness." [14]
Sue Upton (born 9 November 1954 at Chadwell Heath, Essex [1] [2]) is an English comic actress and dancer, best known for her many appearances on The Benny Hill Show.She was one of the longest-serving cast members of Benny Hill's stock company, appearing on the show from 1977 to his final programme for Thames Television in 1989.
Brompton Cemetery monument. Henry James Marris-McGee [1] (14 May 1928 – 28 January 2006) was a British actor, best known as straight man to Benny Hill for many years. McGee was also often the announcer on Hill's TV programme, delivering the upbeat intro "Yes!